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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Gaines, Ernest J.
- ISBN: 9780375702709
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.70
- Number Of Pages: 272
- Publication Year: 1997
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My first literary cry of the year.
Stacey M. - 6 years 4 months agoThrough his spare, but achingly beautiful prose, Gaines transported me to 1940s New Orleans and into a tight-knit Cajun community. A young black man named Jefferson has been sentenced to death for a murder he didn’t commit. Grant Wiggins, a teacher who has returned to his hometown to work at the plantation school, begins—reluctantly, at first—to visit Jefferson in jail. As the bond between them blossoms and solidifies, it becomes very clear how both of them have been shaped by the people and places around them. These characters and their stories still ring true today—and they will stay with me, I’m certain, forever. This novel made me weep, but also laugh, and maybe most importantly, it urged me—and still urges me—to think and rethink about integrity, justice, and respect for yourself and others.
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Extraordinarily touching and beautiful
Catherine Q. - 6 years 5 months agoThis book was so beautiful, touching, and insightful about racism. I ended it sobbing like a little baby. I think it was one of the most tearjerking books I've ever read. This book was beautifully written, extremely difficult to put down, and one of those books that sort of changes you as you read it. Be prepared to get hooked though - it messed up my sleep schedule because I read to fall asleep and I just kept getting more and more wide awake because it was so engaging!!